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Electronic printable ink developed by scientists | Telegraph

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An electronic ink that can be printed on a laser and then conducts electricity has been developed by scientists.

The graphene-based ink was used to make a small plastic keyboard by researchers at the University of Cambridge, who found the one atom-thick material could be used to make cheap, printed electronics.

It could be used in the future for people who need heart monitors, as they could be embed onto clothes, or for tracking luggage in an airport to ensure it is loaded on to the correct plane.

The graphene-based ink has a number of interesting properties, including flexibility, optical transparency, and electrical conductivity.

via Electronic printable ink developed by scientists | Telegraph.

Google Maps becoming more context-aware and ’emotional’ | CNET

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SAN FRANCISCO — For Google, the map of the future is taking everything it knows about you and the world and plotting it in real-time as you move through your life.

“We can build a whole new map for every context and every person,” said Bernhard Seefeld, product management director for Google Maps, speaking at the GigaOm Roadmap 2013 conference. “It’s a specific map nobody has seen before, and it’s just there for that moment to visualize the data.”

Like the early days of map making that told stories of discovery and created more of an emotional connection with the unfolding world, Google wants to build what Seefeld called “emotional maps that reflect our real life connections and peek into the future and possibly travel there.”

Google’s context-aware maps will require refining and extending the underlying map data, and combining it with the kind of personal data from applications that powers Google Now, the company’s personal digital assistant technology.

Read more: Google Maps becoming more context-aware and ’emotional’ | Internet & Media – CNET News.

General Assembly Launches Dash, A Tool For Coding Newbies | TechCrunch

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As General Assembly moves away from co-working and focuses more heavily on educating entrepreneurs and startups, the company is releasing a brand new tool to the public. It’s called Dash, and it’s an interactive online program that helps teach people how to code through a series of interactive storyline-based tutorials.

via General Assembly Launches Dash, A Tool For Coding Newbies | TechCrunch.

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A Future Internet Might Not Use Servers | Gizmodo

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You’d think that given how pervasive the internet is, we’d be stuck with the fundamental architecture it uses: servers that many devices connect to for their information fix. But a team of Cambridge University scientists wants to shake things up—and remove servers altogether.

A project named Pursuit aims to make the internet faster, safer and more social by implementing a completely new architecture. The system does away with the need for computers to connect directly to servers, instead having individual computers being able to copy and re-publish content on receipt. That would allow other computers to access data—or, at least, fragments of data—from many locations at once.

Read: A Future Internet Might Not Use Servers | Gizmodo.

Screw Teaching Your Kids–Get This Robot Instead | Co.Labs

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Gupta set out to find a way to teach very young children the basics of coding–sequences of instructions, subroutines, events, conditional statements–in a playful way. Today Play-i launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise $250,000 to manufacture two kid-friendly robots called Bo and Yana, which teach high-level programming concepts to children as as young as five.

Read more: Screw Teaching Your Kids–Get This Robot Instead ⚙ Co.Labs ⚙ code + community.

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‘It’s Britney, witch!’: Britney Spears recites the ‘Thriller’ intro | PopWatch | EW.com

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‘Tis the season for multiple costume changes! Britney Spears has temporarily traded in her dominatrix whips for bloody axes and wooden brooms.

In a Halloween-themed video for BBC‘s The Radio 1 Breakfast Show With Nick Grimshaw, the pop princess says “It’s Britney, witch!” and recites the intro from Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” “Creatures crawl in search for blood, to terrorize your neighborhood,” Spears says in an adorable Southern-fried Vincent Price voice.

Spears reads the famous song intro from a throne, orders pepperoni pizza, rides a broom, and shows that in between working for those Lambos and martinis, she’s got a killer sense of humor.

Watch scary story time with Brit here:

via ‘It’s Britney, witch!’: Britney Spears recites the ‘Thriller’ intro | PopWatch | EW.com.

An All-in-One Guide to the Maker Culture and 3D Printing | Ellyssa Kroski | OEDB.org

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The maker culture is a thriving movement amongst all types of people who want to create and design their own objects, crafts, or computer code.  This DIY community is using state-of-the-art technology such as 3D printers to design and craft their own 3D objects.  This introductory guide will give you an overview of today’s maker movement, resources for getting started, 3D printer reviews, links to actual project designs and instructions, maker publications, events, and directories, videos about 3D printing and maker culture, and an article list of resources about libraries and makerspaces.

Resources categorized into the following sections:

  • What is the Maker Movement?
  • Getting Started Guides
  • 3D Printers
  • 3D Projects
  • Maker Events
  • Makerspaces Directories
  • Maker Videos
  • Libraries and Makerspaces Resource List

Read: An All-in-One Guide to the Maker Culture and 3D Printing | Ellyssa Kroski | OEDB.org.

Google’s Project Shield helps small websites stand up to DDoS attacks | Engadget

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Created in response to a Google Ideas request — a think tank that provides tech solutions for social issues — made by Middle Eastern activists, Shield aims to allow small site owners to “serve their content through Google” in order to withstand malicious DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks and not go offline.

Read: Google’s Project Shield helps small websites stand up to DDoS attacks  | Engadget.

Video game studio uses copyright claims to censor bad reviews | The Daily Dot

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A video game studio censored negative YouTube reviews of its latest title, using spurious copyright-infringement claims to get its way. And now the gaming world is hoisting its controllers in revolt.

via Video game studio uses copyright claims to censor bad reviews | The Daily Dot

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